Ways of Living.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 407, 25 February 1904, Page 7

Ways of Living.

WOMEN AS WORKERS. "1^^ 0E wom , BH Workers the outlook is jI&K. beecmin g more promising every J§£f® year. The announcement is now made that the Admiralty have asked for a report from the CaptainSuperintendent of Pembroke Dockyard as to the expediency of employing women in the drawing offices as tracers, and in the ship pinery and furniture departments as frenchpolishers and upholsterers. In the event of the report; proving favorable, it is likely that a good deal of work which is now done by male mechanics and apprentices will be appropriated by members of the weaker Bex. In this connection it is interesting to note the number of occupations now open to women a number which is ever increasing, so that at the present rfte of progress there will, at no very distant date, be bat few occupations which mere man will be allowed to retain without fear of female rivals. - Womon already compete with men as architects, accounbihts, artificial fbwer makers, barbers, bookbinders, bookkeepers, bartenders, bee-koepers, ccain makers, clerks, curators, commercial travellers, doctors, dentists, dispensers, dairy teaohers, florists, factory inspectors, gardeners, hairdressers, house decorators, indexes, journalists, librarians, laundry • managers, letter sorters, lecturers, organists, poultry farmers, plan tracers, printets, photographers, rent collectors, sanitary inspectors, stock-keepers, eecretaries, stock brokers, silversmiths, shop assistant*, typists, teaahers, telegraghists, and wood carvers,

; In the field of medicine woman is.aided just bow by the fashionable craza for lady dootors. The number of registered medical women who hare obtained their degrees in Great Britain is already more than 509, while in London alone 92 ladies ate in practice. It will be news to many that there are in England many hundreds of women smiths who toil from morning to niglt in producing chain links. In the Cradley Heath district alone there are fully a thousand women of all ages so employed. VEQETABIANISM, Dr. Brookler, of Vienna, has made a tremendous onslaught on vegetarians. He attacks them in most emphatic language. Stating that he has compared the relative merits of fleah-eatiag and other forms of nutriment, he pronounces in favour of a meat diet, especially for the European races. Summed up, there are five points inthe doctor's indictment : 1. Vegetarians tend to lower the birth rate of countries. 2. They do not survive the fourth generation, 3. They become bald early in life. 4 They suffer from defective eyesight. 5. They are deficient in physical coinage. Mies Florence Nicholson, secrttitry of the British Vegetarian Society, declares that the doctor must have been experimenting with carious representatives of vegetarianism, 'lt is safe to contradict Mb conclusions on every point/ Miss Micholson atatee. 'People judge vegetarians by the extremes. There are cranks and faddists, and poor specimens everywhere. I knew a man who managed to subsist for two years on a fruit and nuts diet. He was ia a deplorable condition at the end of that time. Moat of the people who go in for these fanciful diets are faddists. To succeed as a vegetarian one must change the diet carefully and by degress; Tfce diet should consist of plenty of wholemeal bread, fruits, dried asd fresh, nuts, vegetables, cheese, milk, eggs, milk puddingß. Wine ia allowed, but few vegetarians care for it/